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The birthplace of American industry, the state also pioneered visionary reforms: ''open-air'' schools to curb TB, the first hot school lunch program and formal outdoor recess, child labor laws and factory sanitation. This inventive collection reenacts a little-known history, one at risk of being forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMayer also probes New England's connection to southern slavery, and the bond between ''the lords of the loom and the lords of the lash.'' She makes history feel alive and personal, through diverse voices, sensory details, and lyrical rhythms. Even silence. ''Under menace of storm clouds \/ ships slip northward on amnesia, full \/ of cotton, tobacco, denial \/ bound for enlightened Providence.''\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGlimpse mill towns teeming with new arrivals, toxins coloring the Blackstone River, tenement porches strung with clotheslines. One extended poetic sequence allows readers to experience daily life inside an open-air school and TB sanatorium through the eyes of a spirited young girl--inspired by the author's ancestors. This insightful collection does not just answer to history but shows its human face. It will inform, engage, and surprise readers of poetry and history alike, and be appreciated by students middle-grade and up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit;\"\u003eMary Ann Mayer\u003c\/span\u003e's poems, essays, and translations have been anthologized and widely published. This is her third poetry collection. She is also the author of \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003eTelephone Man\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003eSalt \u0026amp; Altitudes (\u003c\/em\u003eFinishing Line Press). Her honors include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award and Boston's GrubStreet Poetry Prize. She has been a finalist for the May Sarton New Hampshire Book Prize, and nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award and a Pushcart Prize. Mary Ann is a native of Rhode Island's Blackstone Valley and holds degrees from Boston University and Tufts. She practiced occupational therapy for many years. She volunteers with the Ocean State Poets promoting the reading and writing of poetry in under-served communities and serves as an editor for \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003eCrosswinds\u003c\/em\u003e poetry journal.\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mayer skillfully weaves history with verse to create a tapestry of the Rhode Island textile industry that is a blend of both triumph and tragedy.\" From the Foreword by Dr. Patrick T. 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She follows her curiosity about others' lives, holding her own language in abeyance,\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003elistening to their language and their silence.\" -Nancy Jasper, Poet and Licensed Clinical Social Worker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I admire Mayer's ability to transform historical facts into poems marked with emotion and rhythm and relay a history of the common people in a young America that many of us are not aware of. She vividly brings life to these mills and young workers as well as the healing environment of Rhode Island's open-air schools which began a national movement. Here are the dire facts of an epidemic but also the \"esprit de corps\" of the public health campaign to stamp out TB.\" -Caroline Deuerling Occupational Therapist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The volume's unusual title \"Kissing the Shuttle\" was not an expression of love for the loom,\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ebut rather a method of refilling shuttles with bobbins of thread by placing one's lips against the shuttle's eye to pull its thread. Such a contagious practice, called \"the kiss of death,\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003e infected the weavers, mainly women and young girls, thereby establishing a nexus between labor and debility. That nexus is poignantly described in a litany of free verse, vivid and factually based, but embellished with poetic license. Mayer skillfully weaves history with verse to create a tapestry of the Rhode Island textile industry that is a blend of both triumph and tragedy.\" -Dr. Patrick T. 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Heir to four centuries of discovering what the mind can do, humanity used that growing awareness to virtually end the timeless cycles of famine and epidemics of disease, to invent and mass produce countless labor and lifesaving technologies, and to discover nature’s most intimate secrets. These are magnificent accomplishments. And yet, these same miraculous gifts were placed in the service of chauvinistic ambitions that twice plunged the world into paroxysms of death and destruction on unprecedented scales. This is the great enigma of human existence, its agony and its ecstasy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTriumph and Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e traces the course of the scientific, industrial, and cultural revolutions that set the stage for humanity’s deadliest century. 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After a vision in 1983, he built a Sound Peace Chamber, and then worked on building over 65 chambers around the world — leading to recognition by the United Nations for his work for world peace. Through his friend and co-author, David Kopacz MD, Joseph shares his life and lessons for people, young and old, growing through the transition from childhood into adulthood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoseph says that when he was sent to the Santa Fe Indian board­ing school, they were trying to make American kids out of Indian kids, in this book, Joseph tells us, “\u003cem\u003eI am trying to make Indian kids out of American kids\u003c\/em\u003e.” Joseph passes on his wisdom and artwork to the next generations who will inherit the many problems that we have created in breaking the medicine wheel. Joseph tells us, “\u003cem\u003eLet’s not leave the next generations in so much mystery about the physical and spiritual worlds. 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He is the author of many books, including \u003cem\u003eSound: Native Teachings \u0026amp; Visionary Art\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBeing \u0026amp; Vibration: Entering the New World\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCeremonies of the Living Spirit\u003c\/em\u003e, and with David Kopacz, \u003cem\u003eWalking the Medicine Wheel: Healing Trauma \u0026amp; PTSD\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBecoming Medicine: Pathways of Initiation into a Living Spirituality\u003c\/em\u003e. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and holds a master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin. He has worked for HUD, the All Indian Pueblo Council, and the Indian Health Service, using Native American traditions and holistic health care to help those suffering from addiction. In 1983 he had a formative vision of Sound Peace Chambers and has overseen the construction of over 65 chambers on four continents, which led to him being recognized by the United Nations for his work for world peace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid R. Kopacz, MD\u003c\/strong\u003e works as a psychiatrist at the Seattle Veterans Affairs primary care clinic and he is an education champion with the national VA Office of Patient Centered Care \u0026amp; Cultural Transformation, where he teaches Whole Health to VA staff across the USA. He is board certified in psychiatry and holistic \u0026amp; integrative medicine and is an assistant professor at the University of Washington. He has worked in many different settings and places, including holistic private practice, community mental health, and as clinical director of Buchanan Rehabilitation Centre in Auckland, New Zealand. David is the author of \u003cem\u003eRehumanizing\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eMedicine: A Holistic Framework for Transforming Your\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eSelf, Your Practice, and the Culture of Medicine \u003c\/em\u003eand with Joseph Rael, \u003cem\u003eWalking the Medicine Wheel: Healing Trauma \u0026amp; PTSD \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eBecoming Medicine: Pathways of Initiation into a Living Spirituality.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eBecoming Who You Are\u003c\/em\u003e, David Kopacz \u0026amp; Beautiful Painted Arrow (Joseph Rael), a Tiwa elder, have presented a series of marvelous stories for teenagers and young adults about how to become a human being.  This is timely wisdom from Native America, and Joseph’s past, for an age in which the guidance is confusing and truth is optional. The stories help readers sort through the possibilities for who they will become, while learning about and valuing culture \u0026amp; diversity. They describe Joseph’s lessons learned from boarding school, World War II, Pueblo Ceremonies, life on the reservation, and the process of creating sound chambers on guidance from spirits. I heartily recommend it for readers of all ages. We all need the wisdom that David \u0026amp; Joseph offer us.\"\u003c\/span\u003e ―\u003cstrong\u003eLewis Mehl-Madrona MD, PhD, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePsychiatry Residency Training Director, Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, \u003c\/span\u003eExecutive Director, Coyote Institute, \u003cspan\u003eAssociate Professor of Family Medicine, University of New England, Author, \u003cem\u003eCoyote Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCoyote Healing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNarrative Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003e Healing the Mind through the Power of Story\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Knowing who you are is a lifelong journey, a journey that is both old and it is new.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBecoming Who You Are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a remarkable narrative that does not fall into prescribed categories—sharing Native American insights in an engaging and charming manner, always speaking \u003cem\u003eto\u003c\/em\u003e never \u003cem\u003edown\u003c\/em\u003e to kids as the rightful heirs to our planet. Joseph Rael and David Kopacz are healers and carriers of timeless wisdom working tirelessly for the betterment of life. They convey the \u003cem\u003ebecoming\u003c\/em\u003e of \u003cem\u003ebeing\u003c\/em\u003e in lucid text combining autobiography, literature, ecology, spirituality, travelogue, history, magic and wisdom illuminated with beautiful art. Grounded, with shining optimism, this book meanders purposefully like a pure river sourced from a perennial spring of wisdom and will surely motivate kids to fall in love with the earth and—their own selves. In our ravaged age, the book reminds us of interconnectedness and that all that we need is—here—sacred and real—listen!: \u003cstrong\u003e―Usha Akella MSt\u003c\/strong\u003e, Co-founder of Matwaala: South Asian Diaspora Poets’ Collective, Poet and Author, “I Thought a Thought,” \u003cem\u003eEk An English Musical on the life of Shirdi Sai Baba\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Way of the Storm: An English Musical on the life of Meera Bai\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eI Will Not Bear You Sons\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Waiting\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eA Face that Does Not Bear the Footprints of the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"This story of two very different men with common visions, may serve as a guide for all who seek to continually learn about themselves through the lenses of their own history and the cultures of those around us.\" \u003cstrong\u003e―Shuyun David Lo MD \u003c\/strong\u003ePsychiatrist, University of California Santa Cruz Student Health Center\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBecoming Who You Are: Beautiful Painted Arrow’s Life and Lessons for Children\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Joseph E. 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As poet Deborah Cooper describes the collection: \"These are poems of wondering, brushing up against the edge of mystery, poems that reach toward acceptance of all we cannot grasp... And, even as they grapple with grief and disillusionment, these are poems of hope. The threads of tenderness and gratitude run through these pages, \"holding the chaos gently.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTed Bowman\u003c\/strong\u003e is a father, stepfather and grandfather. His family roots are in North Carolina. He has lived in Minnesota since 1973.\u003cbr\u003eHis work as a family and grief educator has occurred in Minnesota, many states, nine countries, including over twenty years of annual work in England, Scotland and Ireland beginning in 1996.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe is the author of more than 125 articles, chapters, booklets, and poems. 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The chain of stories in verse is all about human connection, the profound pain felt when it's lost, and the added distress of ambiguity from the inevitable unanswered questions. 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She teaches online in the Masters in Bioethics Program. Her 20 years at the bedside included oncology, hospice, research, and ICU nursing. She is a past president of ADEC, past chair of its Credentialing Council, and received the ADEC Service Award. She has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters. Her book, \u003cem\u003eNo Place for Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue\u003c\/em\u003e is published by Routledge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The Third Edition of the Handbook of Thanatology expands upon research, scholarship, and practice, appreciating multicultural concerns and issues beyond just a North American perspective. Each of the 22 chapters, authored by an international 'Who's Who' in the death and dying field, is supported by ADEC's Body of Knowledge Outline. 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What should you do when everything feels so out of control and uncertain?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"Navigating Uncertainty: An A-Z Guide for Well-Being,\" Peggy Lanum answers these questions and more. Packed with resources from the latest in neuroscience, biology, and psychology, she presents powerful strategies for how you can claim the driver's seat of your life and move forward towards greater well-being. You will be inspired to overcome uncertainty in life and business with a sense of possibility and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis essential reference is timely and practical. 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She has a Master of Science degree in Organizational Psychology and is certified in a number of popular and effective assessments - all powerful tools to enable you to create and flourish in a better workplace! She is a certified Human Resource Professional (SHRM-CP) and an ICF Associate Certified Coach. Her work is dedicated to the betterment of individuals and organizations by using the latest research in leadership, neuroscience, and positive psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Navigating Uncertainty is a great resource that provides readers with accessible, well-informed, and evidence-based ideas to support well-being. I loved it!\" \u003cbr\u003e-Irena O'Brien, PhD, Neuroscientist and Founder of The Neuroscience School\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Peggy Lanum's A-Z approach to wellness is a must-have resource for all healthcare professionals, whether you're a trainee on the frontline or experienced in leadership. A concise and quick read, with invaluable deep dive references.\" \u003cbr\u003e-H. Bryant Nguyen, MD, Intensivist, Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Navigating Uncertainty is a valuable and timely resource. A relevant and practical handbook that will have a meaningful and positive impact - an essential read for everyone!\" \u003cbr\u003e-Hector Perez, Certified Critical Incident Stress Debriefer\/Executive Director of Operations, Marketplace Chaplains\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an incredible resource for anyone negotiating a storm in life. Full of practical, intelligent, and well-researched tips, the reader can pick any letter of the alphabet and learn something new and helpful. Witty, concise, and thorough, this is a great collection of inspiring suggestions for rising above challenges! A resource I will recommend to all my clients, friends, and family.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Carol Montgomery, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist","brand":"Better Working Together LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41744045998230,"sku":"9798985485806","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9798985485806ita_1.jpg?v=1651871709"}],"url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/collections\/printed-at-bookmobile.oembed?page=49","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}